(1) The R,S.F.S.R., in alliance with the fraternal Soviet
Republics of the Ukraine, Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania and
Byelorussia, is compelled to wage a war of defence against the
common enemy, world imperialism and the Black-Hun-dred, whiteguard
counter-revolution which imperialism supports;

(2) an essential condition for success in that war is a single
command for all contingents of the Red Army, the strictest
centralisation of the command of all the forces and resources of
the socialist republics, especially of the entire army supply
apparatus and also of railway transport which is an
important-material factor in the war, being of primary
importance both for the conduct of operations and for the supply
of munitions, equipment and provisions to the Red Army,

the C.C. of the R.C.P. resolves:

(1) to recognise as absolutely essential for the duration of
the socialist war of defence the unification of everything
connected with supplies for the Red Army under the single guidance
of the Council of Defence and other central bodies of the
R.S.F.S.R.;

(2) to recognise as absolutely essential for the duration of
the socialist war of defence the unification of railway transport
and the management of the railway network through-out the entire
territory of fraternal socialist republics under the guidance and
management of the People’s Com-missariat of Railways of the
R.SF.S.R.;

(3) to recognise as incompatible with the interests of defence
the existence of separate bodies supplying the Red Army and
separate commissariats of railways in the frater-nal Soviet
republics, and to insist on their being changed for the duration
of the war into branches of the R.S.F.SR. bodies supplying the Red
Army and of the People’s Commis-sariat of Railways of the
R.S,F.S.R. that shall be under the jurisdiction of and fully
subordinated to the central R.S.F.S.R. bodies supplying the Red
Army and the People’s Commissariat of Railways of the
R.S.F.S.R.;

(4) to recognise as subject to annulment all decrees
concern-ing Red Army supplies and railway transport or concern-ing
the management of the railway network wherever they contradict the
orders and decrees of the R.SF.S.R. regulating supplies for the
Red Army and the management of railway transport and the railway
network of the R.S.F.S.R.